Call Me Icarus

Seeing your hotel from the rental car return at Newark's Liberty International Airport, you might think, "I'd be better off walking than waiting for a shuttle that will have to course in silly circles for five miles in order to cover a mile as the starling flies." Yes, you might think that, but you would be wrong. So wrong, in fact, that memories of Fables of the Reconstruction would still be coursing in silly circles through your humbled head many hours later.